Perspectives on Africa

This book explores the plethora of social-justice issues facing teacher education and development in Africa. Using both theoretical and empirical p...

Reducere. Reclaiming Afrikan: queer perspectives on sexual and gender identities is a collaboration and collection of art, photography and critical essays in...

Stakeholder Perspectives on World Heritage and Development in Africa argues that World Heritage sites across the African continent should adopt pra...

Reducere. Embedded within the dances of Africa are repositories of historical narratives, invaluable insights on the mindset of ancient and contemporary peop...

We often hear these days that the center of Christianity is moving toward the Global South and Africa is a key player in that movement. This makes ...

Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understa...

This book presents a unique and multi-faceted history youth development in South Africa through the lens of a South African NGO prominent in youth ...

Regimes of Responsibility in Africa -analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doin...

Reducere. After barely making it out of the Congo War alive and experiencing South Africa right after apartheid, Yves and his family fled their homeland and ...

The Francophone World: Cultural Issues and Perspectives introduces readers to French-speaking communities across the globe and offers a perspective...

DescriptionAfrica finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role ...

Offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the 'Muslim heartland' (Middle East, North Afric...

This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace. It offers different explanations for the successes and failures of the three proc...

Reducere. For the church, there can be no more significant question than Christ's Who do you say that I am? It is the cornerstone upon which all of Christian...

Issa G. Shivji is one of Africa's most radical and original thinkers. He has written several books, including the seminal Concept of Human Rights i...

In this fifth volume from the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, contributors explore forgiveness, peacemaking and reconciliation as necessary...

Reducere. DescriptionA new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of co...

Reducere. LGBTQ Mental Health: International Perspectives and Experiences expands our understanding of mental health by considering the unique challenges fac...

An anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing influential to today's scholars and radical thinkers Surfacing: On Bein...

This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments...

A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas deve...

Reducere. DescriptionHow activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the Un...

DescriptionHow activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the Un...

Reducere. Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls f...

This book provides guidance on how to employ enterprise architecture (EA) in deploying and managing information technology (IT) solutions from the ...

Reducere. In a world of increasing globalization, we live amidst a clash of cultures, religions, and worldviews - each battling for the human heart and mind....

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two Afric...

Reducere. How art can empower and enhance community, with case studies from Central Asia, Latin America, Africa and beyondShowing how artists, artworks and c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: A. Adu BoahenForeword by: John LonsdaleIn this book, one of the pioneers of twentieth century African history examines the ...

Reducere. Occupational therapy originated in social reform, but early in its history became allied with medicine, a biomedical perspective and a focus on ind...

Reducere. A landmark volume, The Africana Bible gathers multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on every book in the Hebrew Bible. It opens a critic...

Reducere. DescriptionExistential-Psychology East-West(Volume 2) emerged from continued dialogues on existential psychology, particularly existential-humanist...

During the course of the past three decades efforts of democratisation and institutional reforms have characterised the African continent, includin...

During the course of the past three decades efforts of democratisation and institutional reforms have characterised the African continent, includin...

Reducere. Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the f...

Empires--vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition--have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. E...

DescriptionThe extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining ar...

Reducere. In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-D...

Reducere. Scripture testifies to God's care for displaced peoples. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a narrative filled with migrants, with refugees, ...

DescriptionThis book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public he...

Reducere. Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women's resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring Images of women pro...

Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the c...

Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produce emigrants. The existence of the Irish 'diaspora' is the subject of this fifth instalment of th...

Over the past 25 years, Rwanda has undergone remarkable shifts and transitions: culturally, economically, and educationally the country has gone fr...

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates ...

Despite the remarkable growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the twentieth century, there is a dearth of primary material pr...

Reducere. The Bride Price is the poignant love story of Aku-nna, a young Igbo woman, and her teacher, Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave. As their t...

Reducere. "There's still so much silence and underlying stigma that surrounds suicide and self-harm. Thank you for being so brave, where others, I think, are...

Contributor(s): Author: Laird ScrantonEinstein believed that matter must arise from a simple set of physical dynamics. So did many of the classic a...

DescriptionTrevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gav...

Reducere. The authors in this volume explore the interconnected issues of intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory in societies with a history of collec...

Reducere. Over the past decade, the international political system has come to be characterized as a Great Power Competition in which multiple would-be hegem...

This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yor...